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Gnome 2.0 Officially Available For Solaris

Posted by chrisd on from the gnome-without-hairy-toes dept.

MoonRider writes "Today, Sun Microsystems announced the availability of the GNOME 2.0 Desktop for the Solaris Operating Environment.
You could already download beta versions of the Gnome 2.0 desktop but this is the "official" release that will replace CDE as the default desktop for the Solaris operating system. You can get it on the Sun website."

4 of 244 comments (clear)

  1. Re:CDE by Alex · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I used CDE on Solaris because it is VERY VERY stable - sure gnome may be pretty - in fact it is my GUI of choice on Linux but on a stable OS I use a stable UI.

    Alex

  2. Sun := Idiots. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Who the fuck in their right mind uses gnome for any serious work. When youve done playing with its windows 3.1 file dialog, its motif-like widgets, Its bloated filemanager nautilus, and the half baked text editor abi-crap that dosen't support tables, you KNOW why every distro except shit hat installs kde by defualt.

    Besides, who wants the names of various monkey anatomy on their desktop.

    I hope sun gets a clue and packages kde 3.1 up, since gnome is a total piece of shit, and I know what im talking about, since i have over a years experiance with both, and kde has been the defenitive choice ever since.

    Waste your mod points biznitches, TINAT

  3. MONO? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Great! Now Sun can support that project named after the term for 'monkey' in Mexican - Mono. Then we can run .NET applications on Solaris!! Yipee!!

    Conspiracy theory - Miguel is really a Microsoft robot put on the earth to get Sun to 'embrace' Gnome first, and then Mono, after which his kill switch will be activated and Microsoft will 'extend' .NET. bwahahahaaaaa

  4. Sun is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Every company that embraces free software eventually goes bankrupt. Sun is dying. BSD is dead. Linux is dying too.